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Review and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 35.

PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE
Earlier text: STUDIES IN GALATIANS

THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

By P. T. Magan

The Practical Application of the Call to the Supper.

“A CERTAIN man made a great supper, and bade many.” There is a time, then, in the life of many when they are bidden to the supper of the great God. There is a time when we get our first invitation to be in attendance at that event. This invitation is a separate, distinct, and prominent event in our lives. It comes in the form of God’s call to us to give our hearts to him. If we accept the invitation, it marks that experience in life which is called conversion.
“And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.” The call to come is not given until “supper time.” It is not given until all things are ready. This call to come is given only to those who were bidden, and it is a separate and distinct experience from the invitation. It comes later on in life. As it comes at supper time, and when all things are ready, it is clearly a dangerous thing to parley with it, or to put off obeying its mandates.
“And they all with one consent began TO MAKE EXCUSE.” Seventh-day Adventists have been warned in the Scriptures and through the Spirit of Prophecy that many will apostatize from the faith, and again identify themselves with the world before the end shall come. God does not wish us to do this. He has not told us that these things will be, to frighten and unnerve us. They have not been recited in the Bible for the purpose of making us downhearted or discouraged. But they are put there that we may draw life and power from them, and be saved from the things against which they warn us.
The great majority of people who give up the Third Angel’s Message do not turn their backs upon it in a moment of time. They do not openly declare that it is all a fraud and a lie, and that they want nothing more to do with it. No, people leave the Third Angel’s Message in a far different way from this. They simply ask to be excused.
After men and women have been converted, and have accepted the faith of the soon coming of the Lord, God sends them messages that demand a reform in their lives. A message may come calling for a more healthful mode of living, calling for the giving up of certain articles of diet, not the most healthful, such as meat. And then how often is heard the answer: Well, I am a Seventh-day Adventist. I believe the Sabbath and the soon coming of the Saviour. But I don’t know that it is necessary for me to be so very particular on this thing. I don’t believe that a bit of meat hurts me very much anyway. In other words, this one simply says, “Lord, please excuse me.”
Later on, a message comes in regard to work necessary to be done in the large cities for either rich or poor. This is followed by an appeal for church schools. But these both alike are waived aside with a request to be excused. The same course is pursued in regard to gifts and offerings, and so on with every practical reform or work that comes along.
How much do such persons have of the Third Angel’s Message? How much of that message is there left for practical exercise in their lives after they have asked to be excused on all these things? —Verily, nothing except the condition of do nothing on Saturday; for such persons can not in the true sense of the word be termed Sabbath-keepers. The things that have come to such as practical tests have been avoided, and they have asked to be excused from the doing of them. And when the Sabbath becomes a real test, when persecution, torture, and death stare the keepers of it in the face, then these who have all along rejected every practical test that has come to them, will ask to be excused from this test too.
It is all-important, therefore, that every test as it comes be successfully met and passed. Each temptation and test is either a stepping-stone to greater heights or it is a stumbling-block to lower depths.
But the test brought to view as a last great test, is a test over the sale of our property and worldly possessions.
“The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.”
The call to come to the supper was to these men a call to sell their land and their cattle. They asked to be excused from selling what they had. In asking this, they asked to be excused from attending the supper. They were really asking to be left out of heaven.
The call to the supper is, according to these scriptures, a call to sell. And this matter is now becoming a practical test among us as Seventh-day Adventists. The needs of the cause compel the call. The cause is in great need of money just now, and God is pleading with men and women to relieve this need. Eternal life or eternal death is wrapped up in the scene in which we are now being called upon to take a part. Come along, brethren, let us wake up, and dispose of some of our God-given means, that the cause of God may be relieved, and that we may have a place at the SUPPER of THE LAMB.
Here are the names of those who have contributed to THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS since we last reported:—
D. W. C. McNett, Lena, Ill. $ 10 00 Geo. Wallace, Payette, Idaho 25 00
H. McChesney, Dane, Wis. 10 00 W. Stephenson, London, England 10 35
Geo. Houck, Corona, S. D. 100 00 Mrs. M. J. Parkhurst, Wacousta, Mich. 50 00
Mr. and Mrs. Mac. E. Avery, Morrice, Mich. 1 00 South Dakota camp-meeting 29 75
Thomas Hurd 100 00 M. E. and E. C. Boutelle, Aztalan, Wis. 50 00
M. G. Gorham, Spirit Lake, Iowa 5 00 James Johnson, Everly, Iowa 50 00
Mrs. H. D. Hare, Vergennes, Vt. 10 00
Send all money for THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS to A. G. Adams, Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. P. T. MAGAN.

FINANCIAL

By S. H. LANE

We are pleased to tell the readers of the REVIEW that some have responded to the appeal for money, in the issue of July 24, for the General Conference Association. Some have offered money without interest, and others at a low rate of interest. We are indeed thankful for these responses. The association desires to procure at least fifty thousand dollars. This amount is not wanted to invest in some new, untried enterprise, but to pay back to a person of whom the association has borrowed. It is the settled policy of the association not to run into debt, but to reduce large denominational debts just as fast as possible.
We are indeed pleased to report that many of our people are being moved by the Spirit of God to do something to aid in the reduction of the debts of the denomination. Gifts to the fund to publish the book, the proceeds of which will be applied on the debts of our schools, are coming in quite satisfactorily. This will aid wonderfully in reducing our debts, but notwithstanding this we are in need of fifty thousand dollars by Jan. 1, 1901, and will be glad to secure contributions, and money without interest, or with interest at four or less per cent, giving the note of the association.
Our General Conference, State Conferences, tract societies, publishing houses, and schools are all economizing, and doing all in their power to reduce expenses to a minimum. This being true, money will be saved, which can be applied to cancel debts and to forward the message.
In the past, buildings for publishing houses, sanitariums, colleges, and State depositories have been built, which consumed contributions and all that could be made in operating these institutions. Now that the buildings are erected, it seems that contributions, outside of specific donations and earnings, aside from carrying on our regular line of work, should be applied to liquidate debts, and to build up the work in new fields; and when all our debts are paid, then, instead of building in our older fields, build only in new fields as circumstances demand, thus disbursing all our money in warning precious souls in regions beyond. We shall hail with delight that day.
The General Conference, which pays all its laborers in this country and some in other countries, has audited all accounts and paid the same to Jan. 1, 1900, and thousands of dollars on the time of laborers during the present year, and is not in debt.
Our publishing houses last year made financial gains, and thereby were able either to increase their assets or to diminish their debts. As a rule our schools are now so managed that they are self-supporting; so, as we survey the field, and see that prosperity attends, and the blessing of the Lord rests on, the work of the General Conference, Foreign Mission Board, the publishing houses, sanitariums, and schools, we should all be encouraged, and aid them all we can by making liberal contributions and loaning money. Now is the opportune time to aid the cause of present truth. It never has needed, and it will never need, money more than at the present time. May the Lord bless all with an earnest disposition to aid the cause of God just now. Address the General Conference Association, Battle Creek, Mich. S. H. LANE.

WEST INDIAN MISSION FIELD.

By A. J. Haysmer

In September, 1899, I went to Trinidad to assist Elder Webster for a few weeks in a canvassers' institute and other matters that needed attention. I was glad of this opportunity of getting better acquainted with the island and its needs. Elder Webster's time had been taken up in looking after the depository and church work; Elder Johnston's time previously to his return to the States on account of sickness, had been spent on the land purchased by Brother Wharanam for an industrial school. So little aggressive work had been done for some time.
A tent had been stored there for nearly three years. It seemed clear that we ought to get our help together and engage in tent work. I decided to remain a few weeks to help them. The city officials of Port of Spain allowed us to pitch the tent on city land, in a convenient place, and we began meetings with a good congregation, and the best of attention was given. When we came to the Sabbath question, the interest did not abate. On account of Elder Johnston's return to the States, I remained longer than I had intended. We kept the tent up seventeen weeks, and as the result about thirty persons began the observance of the Lord's Sabbath.
As Brother and Sister Webster were both poorly, I could not leave until other help came; so we decided to pitch the tent in San Fernando, the next largest town. Here, as at Port of Spain, the city gave us the use of a beautiful spot of land. The interest was good. Although there were many things to detract, yet the Lord blessed in the effort. Elder Crowther and family arrived from the States and joined us the first of March. As I had been away about six months, and the work was pressing, I could only remain about three weeks, just long enough to let Elder Crowther get acquainted with the work. At our last meeting about one hundred persons arose, testifying that what they had heard was Bible truth. Many said that they were going to obey God.
March 23 we returned to Barbados. I there received word from Jamaica that their council meeting and canvassers' institute was to begin April 6. The few days before I had to start, we were very busy getting material for a tent, and cutting it out, so that the tent could be made while I was gone, and be ready to pitch on my return.
On arriving in Jamaica it seemed good to meet our workers all together for counsel. The meeting passed off well. An effort was made to help the church and all who might come in. The Lord came near, several backsliders were reclaimed, and nearly the whole church came forward to seek the Lord. Shouts of victory were heard all over the house. We visited the churches at Spanish Town and Font Hill. We should have been glad to visit all the churches; but as we desired to pitch the tent in Barbados, we hastened back.
We began tent-meetings in Bridgetown, Barbados, April 4. We could not secure a central place, so our congregations have not been as large as we expected. The enemy has been working hard to break up our meeting. One of our nearest neighbors—a government employee—hired a band to come as close to the tent as possible, not more than ten feet away, and make all the noise they could. This, while making it hard to speak, only added to the interest, verifying the statement that they can do nothing against the truth, but for it. Public sentiment was against it, so it was kept up for only a week. The nights are dark, and there is plenty of rain. This will affect the work some, yet we believe that the Lord has some jewels here that will be gathered out. We hope to pitch the tent in other parts of the city.
We are trying to raise money to build a church, which is greatly needed. We have purchased a lot in a good locality, for two hundred and fifty dollars. The church now numbers about one hundred. They have been renting a room for meetings; but as their numbers increase, this is not sufficient, and the influence on the work is not what it should be. Many missionaries come here, rent a room, and hold meetings for a time; and as their work does not pay financially, they pull up and leave. People think it will be the same in our work. If we had a church of our own, it would give permanence to the work, and we could get many more to attend the meetings, as we dare not advertise any special subjects, not having a place to which to invite the people.
The work might have been much further advanced if about one thousand dollars had been spent in a permanent building. Our brethren here are not able to build the church, as they are very poor; and instead of their helping, many of them have to be helped. All the wealth of the church would not be sufficient to put up the building needed. Yet this is no reason why God's faithful poor should not have a plain church in which to worship the Lord, whom they dearly love.
It will take about five hundred dollars, besides what we can raise here, to build the church needed. I do not know where this amount could be more profitably spent than in a church here. Are there not some of our people whom the Lord has intrusted with this world's goods who would like to help us in this building?
One of our brethren told me that his average income during the gathering in of the cane crop had been forty-eight cents a week, boarding and rooming himself. This lasts only a small portion of the year; the rest of the time the brethren can scarcely get anything to do. We have some young men teaching in the public schools, and they get from two and one-half dollars to three dollars each month, and board and room themselves. These are only samples of what we might give.
Most of our people are faithful in paying tithe and offerings. But how can we raise money to build meeting-houses? I feel condemned because I have not laid these conditions before our people before, as I believe that we could long ago have had a place to which to invite the people to worship their Lord. We ask for a plain building, just large enough to hold the people. But as materials are very high,—lumber from thirty to forty dollars a thousand,—it will be seen that we can not put up a suitable building for much less than seven hundred and fifty dollars. All contributions for this purpose should be sent to the Foreign Mission Board of Seventh-day Adventists, Room 1905-7, 150 Nassau St., New York City, N. Y., stating that they are for the Seventh-day Adventist church in Bridgetown, Barbados.
May our people remember, at the throne of grace, the work and workers in these needy fields.
A. J. HAYSMER.

ONTARIO

By F. D. Starr; J. H. Watson

AFTER our camp-meeting at Guelph, it was my privilege to assist Elder William Spear in the dedication of our house of worship near Hagersville, Ontario. This church was built about two years ago, but was not finished until recently. It was built by and for the Indian church at that place, on the Six Nations reservation. It was an occasion of much gratitude to God to see this house consecrated to his service for this people.
July 8 I baptized seven Indians at Southwold, where Brother A. G. Smith and others have bestowed considerable labor. We organized a church of nine members there at that time, to be known as the Oneida church. July 14, 15, I held the quarterly meeting with the Toronto church. Three persons were baptized at this time, besides one brother who was rebaptized. July 18 Elder Spear and myself began tent-meetings at Carleton Place, within thirty miles of Ottawa. We have a good interest so far.
Elders Ballenger and Simpson are developing the interest created by the camp-meeting at Guelph. This meeting was considered by all a most excellent camp-meeting, and we hope that our brethren will remember the tent effort that is now being made there. Elders Howe and Dryer are holding tent-meetings at Caledon, near Orangeville.
We are endeavoring to do all we possibly can with tents and otherwise this season to publish the truth in new places, and we hope that our brethren and sisters will be faithful in paying their tithe and in making offerings to support the work, and in praying for the success of the workers; for all this is greatly needed. The workers must be sustained during the tent season, as we must not drop the tent efforts now begun; but after the tent season some of our workers may endeavor to do self-supporting work by canvassing for our books. It was my privilege last Sabbath to be with the Ottawa church. So many have moved away that their numbers are now very few. The burned district of the city makes a very impressive scene. It makes one think of the soon-coming day when not only a square mile or more of one city will be laid waste, but the whole world. Where will our treasure be then?
F. D. STARR.
THE following officers were elected at the recent meeting of the Ontario Conference, held in connection with the annual camp-meeting at Guelph: President, F. D. Starr; Secretary, Helen McKinnon; Treasurer, T. H. Robinson. Executive Committee: F. D. Starr, T. H. Robinson, P. M. Howe, E. J. Dryer, J. H. Watson. Tract Society: President, F. D. Starr; Secretary and Treasurer, Helen McKinnon. Executive Committee, same as Conference. Sabbath-school Association: President, P. M. Howe; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. E. M. Dryer.
J. H. WATSON.

PENNSYLVANIA

By R. A. Underwood

It has been a long time since I sent to the REVIEW AND HERALD a report of the work in the Pennsylvania Conference. These reports do not find their way to the REVIEW as often as in years gone by, before the days of State papers. However, whether there is a report or not, the message is making its way to the six million five hundred thousand persons in the Keystone State.
During the last year we held three camp-meetings in the State. Five new churches were added to the Conference, and over two hundred and fifty new members were taken into the churches. Four young men have been ordained to the gospel ministry. There was an increase of tithe over the previous year to the amount of over sixteen hundred dollars. Contributions to school funds and foreign missions have also increased. From its tithe the Conference pays ten dollars a week for a teacher in South Lancaster Academy, and the same amount for a laborer in foreign fields, besides the ordinary use of the tithe for the General Conference and the work in the State.
This season we have seven tents in the field. The first is pitched in Philadelphia. Elders W. J. Fitzgerald and L. S. Wheeler are in charge, with a good interest reported. The second tent is pitched in Altoona, with Elder S. S. Shrock and M. J. Fritz in charge. The third is pitched at Uniontown, Fayette Co., with Brethren Longeacre and Schwartz conducting the meetings. The fourth tent is at Clearfield. Elders Smith and Baierle report an excellent interest. The fifth tent is at Kane. Elder C. Meleen and tent company are laboring among the Swedes. The sixth tent is at Honesdale, Elders McVagh and Rees being in charge. The seventh is pitched at Allentown. Brethren Schilling and White are in charge. Nearly all these tent companies report a good attendance, and in several cases our brethren report that quite a number have already taken a stand for the truth.
War and politics do not hinder us from reaching the ears of the people, but rather add new life to the message. We are planning to hold, in various parts of the State, fifteen or more general meetings of five-days' length, as soon after tent season as possible. These meetings will be so arranged that most of our brethren in the State can attend some one of these gatherings. Revival meetings will be held, and all branches of the work looked after at these gatherings. Each one of such meetings can usually be attended by three or four churches, and our experience is that these occasions are very profitable.The laborers and the brethren in the Conference are of good courage in the faith once delivered to the saints. R. A. UNDERWOOD.

MANITOBA

By Andrew Nelson

MORDEN.—As a good interest was manifested at our camp-meeting by our friends in the city, it was thought best to continue the meetings in a tent; so Brethren Gravelle and Buhalts, and some of our Bible workers, remain to develop the interest; and meetings have been held every night since. A good interest has been manifested, and some have begun to obey the truth, and others are deeply interested. Since the camp-meeting the writer has also been connected more or less with the work there.
Elder Dirksen has been laboring among the Germans in the vicinity of Morden, with a good degree of success. We have a German church of forty members, and are planning to build a church in Morden, so that we can have a place in which to hold our meetings after we take down the tent.
New interests are springing up here and there, and the calls are coming in faster than we can fill them. We are of good courage in this field, and the work is moving onward. ANDREW NELSON.

NEWS AND NOTES

—Complete returns give the population of the entire city of New York as 3,437,202.
—An oil well at Medaryville, Ind., seventy-five miles from Chicago, produces 240 barrels of oil a day.
—The London Daily Express reports that Lord Roberts has already been appointed to succeed Lord Wolseley, as commander-in-chief of the British army.
—The Hon. William Lidderdale, ex-governor of the Bank of England, will come to the United States for the purpose of studying the American banking system.
—During the last year 2,400 duels have been fought in Italy, resulting in 480 deaths. Most of these combats were between army officers, and based on the most trivial pretexts.
—August 17, a white man having been killed by negroes in Liberty City, Ga., a race riot occurred, in which two whites and three negroes were killed, and a number wounded; troops now patrol the district.
—Fifteen Italian detectives are coming to the United States to shadow Italian anarchists in this country. Fourteen Italians were detained at New York, August 18, on suspicion of being in a plot to kill President McKinley.
—Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation warning all Boers that those who break their oaths in the future will be punished with death, imprisonment, or fine, and that buildings where the enemy is harbored will be liable to destruction.
—General Randall, Seattle, Wash., has received authority to send back the indigent sick and destitute from the Cape Nome district, at the expense of the United States government. He has already received over 3,000 applications for passage.
—It is said that, on August 18, “a Roman Catholic priest in Louisville, Ky., refused to celebrate mass for the late King Humbert, saying that Humbert had been excommunicated.” The Italians of the city appealed to Papal Delegate Martinelli, at Washington.
—It is reported that “diamonds, regarded by London dealers superior to those from South Africa, and valued at from twenty-five to fifty per cent higher than those found in that region, have been discovered at the diggings up the Mazaruni River, in British Guiana.”
—The bubonic plague has appeared in Manila, Philippine Islands.
—The czar will visit the Paris Exposition, as guest of the Russian embassy.
—Window-glass manufacturers have decided upon a ten-per-cent advance in prices.
—The Johannesburg mines will suspend operations, owing to lack of food supplies.
—With the present uncertainty existing in China, the Powers will take turns watching China’s fleet.
—Korea, according to a Seoul dispatch, consents to Japan’s sending troops there to provide for emergencies.
—The Japanese government has given permission to the United States to establish a hospital on Japanese territory.
—France is negotiating for one million tons of coal from the United States, to be delivered in the next fifteen months.
—The Adams Express Company was robbed of a $25,000 express package, between Chicago and Burlington, Iowa, August 20.
—The cost of the Philippine war since February, 1899, aggregates, to date, $186,678,000, besides the lives of 2,400 American soldiers.
—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted African poet, was drugged and robbed, in New York City, the 21st inst., by one of his own race.
—Kansas farmers met in Topeka, last week, to form a trust and keep up the price of agricultural products. At the meeting $15,000 was subscribed.
—The present population of Omaha, Neb., is almost 40,000 less than it was ten years ago. In 1880 the population was 140,452, while this year it is only 102,555.
—Caleb Powers, secretary of State under Governor Taylor, has been convicted of aiding in the murder of William Goebel. The Kentucky jury returned the verdict in fifty-three minutes.
—And now it seems that “Russia’s occupation of New-Chwang, without adequate reason, caused the decision to land troops at Shanghai, in which Great Britain is supported by Japan.”
—It is said that “Germany is preparing for an autumn and winter campaign in China. One evidence of this is that a slow steamer has been chartered for December, to carry to China material for a sixty-mile field railroad.”
—President McKinley, members of the cabinet, ministers and ambassadors of foreign countries, and a great concourse of people, attended a memorial mass for King Humbert, in St. Matthews Catholic church, Washington, D. C., Sunday, August 19.
—Maitre Labori, the famous French lawyer who defended Dreyfus, will lecture throughout the United States next winter, his object being “to recuperate his fortunes, destroyed beyond repair in France, by his connection with the Dreyfus case.”
—A contract has been awarded to the Royal City sawmills at Vancouver, British Columbia, by the military authorities at Esquimalt, for the construction of 15,000 army huts. They are for use in China, especially during the wet season, and are to be made of wood.
—At the recent annual conferences of the Yorkshire Evangelical Union, it was stated that, of the 18,432 clergy of the Church of England, 9,731 are active upholders of ritualistic, or Catholic, principles. From 1888–98 the number of ritualistic parishes rose from 3,776 to 8,183.
—Andrew Carnegie has had constructed the largest locomotive in the world. The total weight is 391,400 pounds; its boiler capacity is 7,500 gallons; its steam pressure is 220 pounds; its heating surface is 3,564 square feet. The engine is not built for speed, but for power to haul coal, iron, and steel between Conneaut and Albion.
—A race riot occurred in New York City, on the west side, caused by the killing of a policeman by a negro, August 12. Three days after, on the 15th, “a mob took possession of Eighth avenue from Twenty-Eighth street to Forty-Third street, and spread to Ninth and Seventh avenues, through the various side streets, and beat and assaulted every negro man or woman they met. Negroes were pulled off from street-cars, rolled over in the street, kicked and beaten, and were almost murdered, before they could be rescued by the police. Long after midnight the streets were filled with rioters.” The number of persons injured, so far as known, is seventy-two.
—The employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway Company are forbidden to wear celluloid collars, because of “a peculiar and serious accident that happened August 5. A motorman attempting to repair the motor of his car, which had burned out, the controller became charged with electricity. One end happened to come in contact with his celluloid collar. There was a flash, a ring of fire shot around his neck, and he fell unconscious. It is thought that he probably inhaled some of the flame. He was so seriously injured that he can not recover. The rule of the street railway is that its employees shall wear white collars, and nearly all the men wear celluloid collars, as they are the only kind they can keep white during the day.”
—August 18 a steamer arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., with $3,000,000 in gold from the Klondike.
—The ameer of Afghanistan is said to be mobilizing forces, and contemplating an advance on the Russian frontier.
—The six-masted schooner “George W. Wells,” the largest in the world, was recently launched at Camden, Me.
—Former United States Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, died August 16, in Las Vegas, N. M. He was born Dec. 29, 1833.
—August 15 a telegraph operator’s neglect caused the loss of seven lives in a head-on collision, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, near Grand Rapids, Mich.
—President Loubet of France has decorated Ferdinand W. Peck, United States commissioner to the Paris Exposition, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
—Lord Kitchener, after a forced march, has relieved Colonel Hoare and the British garrison at Eland’s River; the garrison had lost twelve men killed and fifty-eight wounded.
—August 17, during the burial of Collis P. Huntington, in New York, “every wheel and stroke of work throughout the Southern Pacific system of railroads and steamboats was stopped for seven minutes, as a mark of respect.”
—The police of New York City have discovered some small children who had been cruelly treated, starved, and beaten by their parents; and “in the case of all three of these children, their lives had been insured, for the benefit of the parents.” This is but one of the evils of life insurance.
—News from the Philippines says that “increased activity has been manifested by insurgents in the Visayan Islands during the last six weeks. The amnesty proclamation has had practically no effect. In Luzon the rebels are using smokeless powder, which they must have obtained by filibustering.”
—By a deal just closed, the Carnegie Company “will control the iron production of the Lake Superior region for the next fifty years. It has made a contract with the ore companies, calling for a total of 10,000 tons of ore a year. It is stated that all the rivals of the Carnegie Company, the American Steel and Wire, the Federal and Midvale, and other companies, will be compelled to depend upon the Carnegie Company for much of their ore.”
—Three young Filipinos have arrived at Ann Arbor, Mich., and will enter the University of Michigan. Two of them — Santiago Artiaga, of Manila, and Juan Tecson, of Bulacan — passed competitive examinations for scholarships, and are sent to the United States by the International Club of Manila. The third is a young lad named Lorenzo Orriabia, aged eleven. He comes of a fine family, and his father was killed while fighting against Spanish rule. Artiaga and Tecson will enter the civil engineering department.

MICHIGAN

By B. F. Sturmean

AMONG THE CHURCHES — At the Greenville State meeting I was asked to visit churches this summer, and May 23 I went to Mesick, where I gave a course of lectures last winter, and at the same time looked after the finishing of the church building.
May 27 this church was dedicated, and the Lord came near. There was a large attendance during this three-days’ meeting, at which Elder Soule and Brother Irwin assisted. As the result of the course of meetings held here, I baptized, in all, twenty-five persons, and thirty-six were taken into the church. The Lord has surely blessed this church.
From May 31 to June 2 I was with the church at Gaylord. Satan had been working for years to divide this church, and they were sadly in need of help. The Lord came wonderfully near, backsliders were reclaimed, sinners converted, and the Christian was raised to a higher life. In all my labor among the churches, I have never seen such a reformation as in this church at this time. I baptized two persons here.
The following Sabbath I visited the company at Haze. The Lord also came near to the people here, and those who had dropped family worship and ceased attending church were again brought back, and are happy in the Lord. It was remarked by some that this was the best meeting they had had for years. To the Lord be all the praise.
While in this part of the State, I visited the companies at Charlevoix, Van, Cadillac, and McBain. At all these places we had excellent meetings, and the Spirit of the Lord was in our midst.
I then went to Traverse City, and held two meetings. Three persons gave themselves to the Lord, and one was baptized.
July 13-15 I spent with the church at Alden, and on the Sabbath we had a wonderful revival. Backsliders were reclaimed, sinners converted, and God’s people were awakened. As the result of the work here, five persons were baptized, and seven, besides the one who came for the purpose of baptism, were taken into the church.
As I look back upon the labors of these few weeks among the churches, I see the wonderful working of God, and know that the Lord has not yet forsaken his people. At nearly all these churches and companies the people have gladly contributed toward my traveling expenses. To the Lord be the praise for all. B. F. STURMEAN.

HOT SPRINGS (S. D.) CAMP-MEETING.

By N. P. Nelson

The Hot Springs camp-meeting is now in the past, but the memory of it will long linger in the minds of those who were present. It was a profitable meeting. Many of the brethren came more than one hundred miles over rocky and hilly country to attend the meeting. They came for a spiritual refreshing, and were not disappointed.
Elders Warren and Shultz were present, and rendered valuable help in the meeting. Professor Bland was there in the interest of Union College, and Dr. M. C. Heilesen was there from the sanitarium.
About two hundred persons were camped on the grounds. Eighty dollars was given in money and pledges for the home and foreign missionary work. Twenty-three persons were baptized,—all young persons, the fruit of the three church schools held during the winter in the Hills and vicinity.
Quite a number of brethren came down from Wyoming, where we have four colporteur wagons out selling our publications. That is about the only way in which the truth can reach the people there, as the country is thinly settled except in the mining camps. N. P. NELSON.

STOCKTON (KAN.) CAMP-MEETING.

By John W. Covert

This was the local meeting for northwestern Kansas, and was held July 26 to August 5. The camp was situated in a beautiful natural grove on the bank of South Solomon River, just west of the city. Over one hundred of our people were in regular attendance as campers. Others drove from home in the morning, and returned home in the evening, thus securing the benefit of part of the meetings. Much good is lost by trying to do our work at home and attend camp-meeting at the same time.
Elders Westphal and Rupert and the writer did a large share of the preaching. Brethren Curtis and Godfrey helped in the meeting, and remained to develop the interest. The attendance from the city was small, yet a few were regular in attendance, and expressed a desire to hear more.
Of all the meetings held thus far in the State this season, the interest among our people was the greatest at this meeting. Surely the Lord was present to bless in speaking and also in hearing. On the first Sabbath nearly every one present came forward to seek the Lord. During the week following, the campers could be seen sitting in groups in the grove or in their tents, searching their Bibles, and talking of the precious truths the Lord was sending them in the sermons. On the last Sabbath, Elder E. H. Curtis baptized nineteen persons in the river that ran by the camp. It was a pleasant and impressive scene. The camp-meeting was a success. The only thing we regret is that it was not better attended, but we hope that the ones who did attend may be able to carry the spirit of the meeting to others, that they too may share in what the Lord was pleased to give us. JOHN W. COVERT.

SEPTEMBER STUDY OF THE FIELD.

“Greece as a Mission Field: Part III.”

September 2-8.
(Text-book, September Missionary Magazine.)
1. How is a saint's fête-day observed in the Greek Church?
2. Describe the commemoration of the baptism of Christ.
3. Upon which feast do they lay the greatest stress? How is it observed?
4. What can you say of their hospitality? Of their belief concerning their dead relatives?
5. Tell something of the burial of their dead.
6. State what you can concerning the education of the people.
7. Describe the one belief that is very prevalent among the Greeks.
8. In brief, what can you say of the Greek religion?
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